Note that Zulu is a tonal language, so the meaning of some words depends on whether you use a high or low pitch.
For instance, "Unjani?" with a high tone on the 'u' means "How are you?" whereas a low tone on the 'u' means "How is he/she?"

Zulu vowels are very similar to those found in Spanish or Italian. Vowels always have the same pronunciation, unlike in English. For example, the English letter "a" has a different sound in the words "hat", "all", "father" and "late", but in Zulu it is always pronounced as the "a" in "father". Also, vowels are pronounced clearly in all positions in a word - even at the end. For example, the word "uphinde" is pronounced "oo-peen-deh" (not "oo-pin-dee", "oo-pined", "you-pin-day", "you-pinned" etc).

a - always as the "a" in "father" (never as in "late", "sofa" or "cat")

e - always as the "e" in "kettle" (never as in "he", "open" or "five")

i - always as the "ee" in "see" (never as in "sick" or "sight")

o - always as the "o" in "more" (never as in "go", "pot", "do" or "nation")

u - always as the "oo" in "moon" (never as in "butter", "put", "use" or "Julius")

Numbers in Zulu are quite complex, with all of them acting as adjectives that alter the subsequent word. The numbers listed below are the traditional Zulu numbers, but virtually all Zulu speakers use the English counting system for convenience.